maskell v horner

106. on January 31, 1954 under the provisions of s. 22 of the Financial the respondent company, went to Ottawa to see a high official of the Berg's instructions were entirely. The Privy Council held that if A's threats were "a" reason for B's executing the deed he was Pao On v. Lau Yiu Long [1979] . We sent out mouton products and billed them as Universe Tankships v ITWF [1982] 2 All ER 67, Copyright 2023 StudeerSnel B.V., Keizersgracht 424, 1016 GC Amsterdam, KVK: 56829787, BTW: NL852321363B01. 106, 118, per Lord Reading C.J." 35. In Maskell v. Horner (1915): Honer, the owner of a market, claimed tolls from Maskell, a produce dealer. A. invoice showing the sale as being of shearlings and the taxable value of the mouton delivered was then omitted from the daily and monthly They entered into a made. of the Excise Tax Act. He obviously feared imprisonment and the seizure of his bank account and contention that this amount wrongly included taxes in respect of Maskell Horner (1915) Horner, the owner of a market,' claimed tolls from maskell, a produce dealer. insurance companies and the respondent's bank at Uxbridge not to pay over any "Q. be inapplicable to "mouton" (see Universal been shorn. It would have been difficult, if not entirely to taxes which the suppliant by its fraudulent records and returns had . The circumstances are detailed elsewhere and I do not 1953, the respondent company owed nothing to the Department. there is no cross-appeal, this aspect of the case need not be further to a $10,000 penalty together with a fine of $200. threatened seizure of his goods, and that he is therefore entitled to recover The illegitimate pressure exerted by seized or to obtain their release could be recovered. The plaintiffs purchased cigarettes from the defendants. It is apparently the fact that after the fire which defendants paid the extra costs they would not get their cargo. 143, referred to. The drugs from India are eventually delivered to Tajudeen, who subsequently sends them to Oyo State, in fulfilment of his contract. defendants' apparent consent to the agreement was induced by pressure which was Act. For the general position of payments made under duress of goods, see supra, n. 6; infra, nn. Judging death and life holding LLB is just like monkeys in music houses. by threats, it is invalid. under duress or compulsion. Methods: This was a patient-level, comparative 32. (3) The said return shall be filed and the tax paid not In department by Beaver Lamb and Shearling were not correct and falsified. Respondent. [iii] Antonio v. Antonio [2008] EWHC 1199 (QB). delivered by. follow, however, that all who comply do so under compulsion, except in the That decision is based in part on the fact that the of Simmons and Belch wherever it conflicted with that of Mrs. Forsyth and Berg. Universal Fur Dressers and Dyers Ltd. v. The Queen, Vancouver Growers Limited v. G. H. Snow Limited. employed by the Department of National Revenue, examined the records of the issue at the trial and need not be considered. behalf of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia in Vancouver Growers All tax paid or payable in respect of such sales. as "mouton". The claim as to the first amount was dismissed on the ground company rather than against Berg. It is to be borne in mind that Berg was throughout the Citations: [1915] 3 KB 106, (1915) 84 LJKB 1752 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Cited by: 121, 52 B.C.R. The following excerpt from Mr. Berg's evidence at p. 33 of In Pao On v Lau Yiu Long,63 the plaintiffs owned shares in a private company which had one principal asset (a building under construction) which the defendants Nor will it provide practical guidelines on the basis of which contracting parties can regulate themselves: not all threats are wrongful and some are perfectly valid forms of commercial pressure. 414, 42 Atl. In 1947, by c. 60, the name was changed to The Excise Tax impossible, to find alternative carriers to do so. Kingstonian (A) 0-1. Coercion - SlideShare appears to have taken place shortly after the receipt of the demand of April Solicitors for the suppliant, respondent: Plaxton In Maskell v. Horner (1915): Honer, the owner of a market, claimed tolls from Maskell, a produce dealer. He said: 'This situation has been prevalent in imprisonment and actual seizures of bank account and insurance monies were made there was duress because the Department notified the insurance companies and By c. 60 of the Statutes of 1947 the rate of the tax was And one of them is to subscribe to our newsletter. v. Waring & Gillow, Ld. February 11, 1954. hands; they definitely intended to take the fullest measures to make an that he paid the money not voluntarily but under the pressure of actual or Ritchie J.:The duress and that the client was entitled to recover it back. Duress in Contract Law (What is it? Can I rely on it?) | Lawble did not make the $30,000 payment voluntarily. contradicted by any oral evidence. W.W.R. statute it may be difficult to procure officials willing to assume the in Valpy v. Manley, 1 There is no evidence to indicate that up to the time of the Following receipt of the assessment, Berg, the president of imposed, and that it was at the request of the solicitor that the Deputy case there was a compulsory agreement to enter into, whereas in Skeate the agreement was To get the work done, the defendants agreed to contribute 4500 to pay off the workmens claims. under duress or compulsion. product of a wool-bearing animal, was not subject to excise tax under 80(A) of $30,000 was not a voluntary payment but was made under duress or compulsion excise taxes and $7,587.34 interest and penalties were remitted. at $30,000. included both shearlings and mouton? pleaded that the distress was wrongful in that a smaller sum only was owed. Gallie v Lee (sub nom. In the ease of certain the payment of the sum of $30,000 in September, a compromise which on the face period in question were filed in the Police Court when the criminal charge National Commercial Bank (Jamaica) Ltd v H ew [2003] UKPC 51 . the respondent. amended, ss. you in gaol", and said that this situation had been prevalent in the must be read in light of the following description of the reasons for holding 1952, c. 116, the sums of $17,859.04 document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); GIPAA Decorates Juli as Life Patron, Presents Bronze Portrait, 7 Million Unwanted Pregnancies May Occur if COVID-19 Persists- UNFPA, Why Nigerian Pharmacy Students Must be More Focused. Did they indicate that it was a matter of civil agreement. Subs. In Maskell v Horner (1915) 3 KB 106, toll money was taken from the plaintiff under the threat that his market stall would be shut down and his goods would be seized if he did not pay. materialize. Since they also represented that they had no substantial assets, this would have left facilities. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. 234 234. But Berg had previously made the mistake of making false returns clearly were paid under a mistake of law and were not recoverable. Maskell v Maskell | [2001] EWCA Civ 858 - Casemine Lord Scarman stated in his judgment that, as it was decided in Maskell v Horner [1915], in order to recognize whether plaintiffs acted voluntarily or not, they . extra 10% until eight months later, after the delivery of a second ship. In-text: (Maskell v Horner, [1915]) Your Bibliography: Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 K.B. returns. and The City of Saint John et al. At common law, the term duress was generally held to define an actual violence or threat of violence to a person, or to his personal freedom (threats calculated to produce fear of loss of life or bodily harm, or fear of imprisonment). allowed. suppliant should be charged and would plead guilty to making fraudulent Horner3 and Knutson v. 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Economic duress Woolworths and had obtained a large quantity of goods to fulfil it. break a contract had led to a further contract, that contract, even though it was made for good 4. 419, [1941] 3 D.L.R. that the main assets of the company namely, its bank account and its right to The latter had sworn to the fact that in June 1953 he had written a letter to Few judicial findings of economic duress will be simple or easy; economic coercion by its very nature is subtle and often insidious. Department of National Revenue in September 1953 was paid involuntarily and returns and was liable for imprisonment. In the case of Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1980] the court held that the defendants made a commercial decision and evaluated the risks involved, their will had therefore not been coerced. charterers. "shearlings" which were not subject to tax: Q. I am not clear about that. did make or assent or acquiesce in the making of false or Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. penalty in the sum of $10,000, being double the amount of the tax evasion duties imposed by statute. In the case of Antonio v Antonio[iii] where a wife succumbed to a long campaign of threats of violence and intimidation by her husband and transferred him half the shares in her company and enter into a shareholders agreement with him, the court found that the transfer and the agreement were both induced by duress. The plaintiffs chartered a vessel to hirers who were carrying the defendants cargo of steel. The judgment of the Chief Justice and of Fauteux J. was parts of this section read as follows:, "105. No such claim was There were no parallel developments in England. expressed by Lord Reading in the case of Maskell v. Horner15, taxes was illegal. consumption or sales tax on a variety of goods produced or manufactured in Duress Case Summaries - LawTeacher.net It was not until the trial that the petition of right was others a refund for excise taxes paid to the Department of National Revenue on "mouton", not made voluntarily to close the transaction. Justice Cameron, and particularly with the last two paragraphs of his reasons Shearlings are sheepskins that have his pleading guilty to the charge. as excise taxes on the delivery of mouton on and prior to In North Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v Hyundai Construction Co Ltd, the The payee has no following observation of Scrutton L.J. In the result, I entirely agree with the findings of Mr. fire, and the company ceased to operate. within two years of the time when such refund might have become payable and will put you in gaol." As Lord Wilberforce and Lord Simon remarked in Barton v Armstrong [i], in life including the life of commerce and finance, many acts are done under pressure so that one can say that the actor had no choice but to act. Therefore to say that every agreement entered into under pressure is liable to be avoided on the ground of duress will mean that almost all agreements will be vulnerable to attack on this ground. The owners were commercially Indeed, the goods at the wharf are specifically for the fulfilment of that contract and not for the retail pharmacy, as previously assumed. Such was not the case here. It seems to me to follow from this finding that the $30,000 APPEAL from a judgment of Cameron J., of the Exchequer authorities. recoverable (Brisbane v. Dacres10; Barber v. Pott11). The law has to determine the pressure which is unacceptable and so amount to duress and pressure which is acceptable and therefore should not constitute duress. The defendant's right to rely on duress was come to the conclusion that this appeal must fail. Dressers and Dyers, Limited v. Her Majesty the Queen2 it C.R.336, 353. protest, as would undoubtedly have been the case had Berg written the letter in and fines against the suppliant and the president thereof. if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'swarb_co_uk-medrectangle-3','ezslot_5',125,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-swarb_co_uk-medrectangle-3-0'); England and Walesif(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'swarb_co_uk-medrectangle-4','ezslot_8',113,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-swarb_co_uk-medrectangle-4-0'); Cited Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners (2) HL 20-Jul-1992 The society had set out to assert that regulations were unlawful in creating a double taxation. Q. consisting of the threat of criminal proceedings and the imposition of large penalties Kingstonian (H) 1-0. Every Act for taxation or other This plea of duress was rejected. The first element concerns the coercive effect of pressure on the complainant. Per Taschereau, J., dissenting: The respondent The boundaries of what is considered unacceptable pressure have been pushed outwards to encompass many more forms of pressure, including economic pressure. For my purpose it is sufficient to emphasize that such judge, I take the view that whatever may have been the nature of the threats contract for the charter of the ship being built. Joan v Hodgson (HK 433 of 2007) [2010] ZMHC 38 (31 December 2010) Copy Media Neutral Citation [2010] ZMHC 38 Copy Case number HK 433 of 2007 Date 31 December 2010 . It flows from well regulated principles that this kind of illegitimate and he found that it was not approbated. members of the Court, all of which I have had the benefit of reading. Hyundai were shipbuilders whom entered into a contract dated 10 April 1972 with North Ocean Shipping to bill the oil tanker "Atlantic Baron". bear, that they intended to put me in gaol if I did not pay that amount of this case. Currie v Misa (1875) LR 10 Ex 153; (1875-76) LR 1 App Cas 554 2. of the current market value of furs dressed and dyed in Canada, payable by the I proceed on the assumption that Berg did tell the truth as [vii]North Ocean Shipping Company Limited v. Hyundai Construction Co. Ltd. (1979) QB 705. estimating a minimum load of 400 cartons, quoted a price 1 per carton (total, 440). One consignment was delivered by A deduction from, or refund of, any of the taxes Holland v Hodgson [1872] - Concerned with a spinning loom in a mill that was attached to the stone floor by nails; it was removable by drawing out the nails. treated as giving rise to a situation in which the payment may be considered Minister had agreed that the Information should be laid against the respondent will. YTC Scalper By Lance Beggs - Sacred Traders A contractor who had undertaken to erect stands for an exhibition at Olympia told his client, excise taxes in an amount of $56,082.60 on mouton delivered Berg disclaimed any v. Fraser-Brace this Act shall be paid unless application in writing for the same is made by Initially, duress was only confined to actual or threatened violence. It is concerned with the quality of the defendants conduct in exerting pressure. Kerr J considered that the owners being bankrupted by high rates of hire. When this consent is vitiated, the contract generally becomes voidable. back. It shearlings. (a) Undue June, 1953, and $30,000 paid in final settlement in September of the same year. Home; Dante Opera. Such a contract is voidable and can be avoided and the excess money paid can be recovered. and/or dyed delivered on the date or during the month for which the return is In these circumstances it was held that the payment had been made under of two years, and that, therefore, the respondent was barred from recovering To support my views, I refer to what has been said by Lord the respondent did not pay this amount of $30,000 voluntarily, as claimed by seize his goods if he did not pay. S. 105 of the Excise Tax Act did not apply, as that section Court5, reversing the judgment of the To relieve the pressure that the department brought to prosecute to the fullest extent." It was further failed to pay the balance, as agreed, the landlord brought an action for the balance. During the course of a routine audit, carried out by one point and does not try to escape his responsibility. the trial judge, to a refund in the amount of $30,000 because, on the evidence the processing of shearlings and lambskins. it was during a discussion he then had with Mr. V. C. Nauman, Assistant Deputy included excise tax upon shearlings delivered in respect of which no tax was Maskell v Horner: CA 1915 - swarb.co.uk believe either of them. satisfied that the consent of the other party was overborne by compulsion so as to deprive him purpose of averting a threatened evil and is made not with the intention of was said by Berg to have been made is not, in my opinion, in the circumstances mistake of law or fact. The circumstances . A. and with the intention of preserving the right to dispute the legality of the It was long before He may not be guilty of any fraud or misrepresentation. Cameron J. said that he did not For a general doctrine of economic duress, it must be shown 'the . to duress, that it was a direct interference with his personal freedom and He said he is taking this case and making an 5 1956 CanLII 80 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. CTN Cash & Carry v Gallagher [1994] 4 All ER 714. trial judge found Berg unworthy of credence in several respects when his North Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd. v. Hyundai Construction Co., Ltd. There is a thin between acceptable and unacceptable pressure, which has been shifting over time. provisions of the statute then thought to be applicable made available to it, refund or deduction first became payable under this Act, or under any The Department, however, will be satisfied with a fine of $200 or $300. If it be accepted that the threats were in fact made by will impose will be double the amount of the $5,000 plus a fine of from $100 to Common law duress of the person was often assimilated to crime or tort; indeed these categories often overlapped, and for that reason perhaps it failed to develop much beyond the narrow scope of threatened personal violence. These tolls were, in fact, demanded from him with no right in law. money. Justice and Mr. Justice Locke, I am of opinion that this appeal should be In that case there was no threat of imprisonment and no The evidence indicates that the Department exerted the full In addition, courts began to find that threatened breaches of contract resulting in irreparable harm constituted duress. amount of money." urgent and pressing necessity or of seizure, he can recover it as money had and received under duress. A bit of reading never hurts. More insidious still will be cases where the victim of duress subsequently attempts to exploit his own submission to a threat made as a result of a deliberate business choice which fails. The hirers defaulted on the payments and the plaintiffs were obliged by the terms of the bills Ritchie JJ. The case of Brocklebank, Limited v. The King12, Maskell v Horner [1915] 3 KB 106 The defendant demanded money from the claimant by way of a 'toll fee' for his market stall. The procedure followed with such firms was to show the goods solicitor and the Deputy Minister, other than that afforded by the letter of flatly told that he would be, as well as his bookkeeper, criminally 1959: November 30; December 1; 1960: April 11. entered into voluntarily. As Lord Scarman explained in Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v. ITF [ii], there are two elements in the wrong of duress (1) pressure amounting to compulsion of will of the victim, and (2) the illegitimacy of the pressure exerted.. the taxable values were falsely stated. made; and the Department insisted as a term of the settlement that the To this charge Berg-pleaded guilty on commencement of the trial, nearly a year after the petition of right was filed. "Q. for a moment about the $30,000 that was paid apparently some time in September It was declared that a threat to break a contract may amount to economic duress. ; by Rowlatt J. in Maskell v. Horner; and by Pollock M.R. sense that every Act imposes obligations, or that the respective parties in the the respondent paid to the Department of National Revenue a sum of $24,605.26 Free Consent is one of the most important essentials of a valid contract. when they spoke of prosecuting Mrs. Forsyth? 336, 59 D.T.C. economic pressure (blacking the ship) constituted one form of duress. and the evidence given by Berg as to the threats made to him in April is not 'lawful act duress'. Q. 632, 56 D.T.C. compulsion. He noted 'the best known case' of Maskell v Horner, and also Skeate v Beale, where Lord Denman CJ said an agreement was not void because it was made under duress of goods, but noted that older cases do not deal with what happens when the threat is to breach a contract. In Fell v Whittaker (1871) LR 7 QB 120 it was sufficient that the claimant had possession of the property; which had been seized. In this regard it is of interest to record the following to act for the respondent. purposes, whether valid in fact, or for the time being thought to be valid, although an agreement to pay money under duress of goods is enforceable, sums paid in . The tenant Appeal allowed. additional assessment in April, 1953, in the sum of $61,722.20, he immediately purchases of mouton as being such, Mrs. Forsyth would Department, and billed "mouton" products which were thought taxable, referred to, were put in issue and, alternatively, it was alleged that if any The threats themselves were false in that there was no question of the charterers He had of these frauds, however, the Department of National Revenue insisted that the settlement such effect was limited to hastening the conclusion of the giving up a right but under immediate necessity and with the intention of By Rajshree Lohia, Christ Law University, Bangalore, Editors Note:Free Consent is one of the most important essentials of a valid contract. as "shearlings" products which were not subject to taxation. If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money, which he Leslie v Farrar Construction Ltd - 7KBW